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Property from a private San Francisco Bay Area Collector

7242 For two similarly shaped cups with underglaze blue and anhua
A blue and white stem cup with anhua decoration decoration, each ascribed to the Kangxi period, see the Southeast
Kangxi period Asian Ceramics exhibition, Chinese Blue & White Ceramics, 1978,
Thinly potted with a flared rim to the wide, curving well and raised pp. 232-33: no. 265 with similar russet-burnt firing ring (13cm high);
on a tall conical foot, the fabric on the interior delicately molded no. 266 with unidentified anhua decoration on the interior (11cm high)
with alternating lotus flowers and siddham roundels issuing from but with arabesque scrolls painted on the exterior walls similar to the
interlocked strap-work scrolls, the floor of the well painted in anhua decoration that appears on the interior walls of this lot.
underglaze blue with a lotus and tendril roundel that repeats in a fluid
pattern on the exterior walls, the lustrous glaze covering all surfaces
except the foot pad and burnt russet brown where thin along the rim.
5 3/4in (14.5cm) diameter
3 7/8in (9.8cm) high
$10,000 - 15,000

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